14 h. ago BBC Radio 6 listeners devastated as star announces he’s leaving the station

BBC Radio 6 listeners were gutted after Tom Ravenscroft announced his departure from the station in a heartfelt statement

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17 h. ago Zoe Ball happy 'to be back to where it all began' as she returns to BBC Radio 2

Zoe Ball told listeners it was 'lovely to be back' on BBC Radio 2, five months after departing her long-running morning show

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5 d. ago Rylan Clark confesses 'I don't remember' as plane incident left him asking important question

BBC Radio 2 presenter Rylan Clark told his listeners how he 'didn't remember' a plane journey after having 'a couple of wines' onboard a recent flight

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2 w. ago Stricken Sevilla turn once again to Caparrós as owners keep up circus act | Sid Lowe

Fourth spell begins for club’s eighth head coach in less than three seasons, in wake of fourth defeat in a rowJust before two o’clock on Palm Sunday, as Holy Week began and religious brotherhoods started their slow, swaying progress through the streets of Seville, first La Paz, then La Hiniesta, then the rest, a man entered the city at Santa Justa. Aged 69, diagnosed with leukaemia five years ago, wearing a grey cardigan, blue jacket and a slightly manic smile, he’s thinner than before but couldn’t be more familiar. Joaquín Caparrós has coached Sevilla more times than anyone, across three spells, the first a quarter of a century ago; now he was returning for a fourth. “My face is a reflection; it says it all,” he said, leaving the station and stopping on the corner, searching for the car coming for him.Caparrós arrived on a train, alone and as their saviour. As somebody’s saviour, anyway: someone to get behind, someone to hide behind too, for a little while. Two days earlier Sevilla...

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2 w. ago Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?

The therapeutic role music can play is the focus of a string of new books and even an entire BBC radio station. But why can’t we just listen to music for music’s sake?Growing up, I never questioned the intrinsic value of classical music. My father practising classical and jazz guitar was the aural wallpaper to my childhood, and at my rural state school I took lessons on the recorder, the violin, the cello, the trombone, the piano. The after-school clubs on offer included, somewhat implausibly, an ocarina ensemble. Music was art, and wasn’t art the point of it all, when you got right down to it? The reason to live, after we cater for all our basic needs? It was certainly what led me to become first a classical musician, and then a music historian.But when my dad died unexpectedly in 2019, it threw my relationship with music into sharp relief. All of a sudden, I couldn’t bear listening to it. It was too painful, or it grated on my nerves and made me angry. I started to question how an...

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2 w. ago Rylan Clark halts show before declaring 'love' for BBC Radio 2 co

Rylan Clark stunned his BBC Radio 2 listeners when he stopped his show in its tracks to make a gushing statement about his colleague Liza Tarbuck

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2 w. ago Rylan Clark puts BBC Radio 2 show 'on hold' as he declares 'love' for co

BBC Radio 2 star Rylan Clark told listeners he had just returned from filming season 2 of 'Dating Naked UK' before halting the show to share his affection for a co-star

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3 w. ago Parents of brilliant young artist found dead at Tube station hope coroner will leave no stone unturned on Underground safety

Sarah Cunningham’s death aged 31 led to outpouring of grief from art world

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